Helping Home Group to become leaders in new models of care. That’s when it hits home.

We have fabulous opportunity for you to join our awesome (and growing) Business Development Team. We oversee the development of new business as well as remodelling current services to be the best that they can be. We’re ambitious and on the road to be a market leader in mental health and learning disabilities services and health innovations over the next five years.

The team works nationally so there is loads of variety in the work. Although every opportunity we work on is different, the one thing that is always the same is our total commitment to designing the right service for customers and maintaining excellent relationships with commissioners.

Home Group is currently on a number of frameworks and provider lists, however we’re certain we aren’t fully maximising our potential from these. In this new role to the business we are looking for you to help us identify which frameworks we should be investing our time and resources in. You’ll write business cases around what our investments should be and how we should structure ourselves to ensure success.

You’ll set Home Group up for success by engaging with commissioners to influence their commissioning practices, as well as maximising on our knowledge of local approaches. You’ll coordinate Home Group’s response to “call offs”, and will even manage smaller tenders yourself.

About our team

You’ll be working alongside our fabulous team who are super passionate about helping Home Group reach our goal of being market leaders in New Models of Care. To us were not just a team we’re a ‘work family’. Our manager is Darren, who has worked for Home Group for over 7 years and has worked in both operational and business development roles in social care for over 18-years. He is passionate about giving his team the space to be creative and uses their knowledge and ideas to feed the organisation’s wider vision and strategy. His natural coaching style helps to get the best out of individuals and the whole team.

The team includes Adam, Carl, Corinne, Doug, John, Karen and Pauline and we don’t just love to support our customers, we’re there for each other too! With Carl having been with Home Group in a number of roles for over 15 years and Adam having just joined, there’s a really exciting combination of understanding about how we do things along with fresh ideas and new approaches. We’ve had some excellent successes recently, including an urgent respite service for people with learning disabilities and a clinically-led service for young people with mental health needs, and are looking to build on those quickly.

About you

As this is a brand new role to the business, you will have the chance to mould and shape its future and success, but to do that, it’s critical that you’re a self-starter! You’ve also got brilliant communication, writing and presentation skills, that you’ve ideally developed within a local authority commissioning environment. As a great collaborator and networker, you’re able to build great partnerships that benefit not just yourself, but the wider business. You’ll help our business leaders understand how they can deliver on the opportunities in front of them! Lastly, here at Home Group we’ve invested heavily in our future and this means that it’s really important that you are technologically savvy (or at the very least not a technophobe!)

Travel

You’ll have the chance to shape your own diary. However you’ll likely spend around 2-3 days per week on the road, and working from home the rest of the time.

What’s in it for you?

There’s lots! Including: competitive salaries, 25 days paid holiday a year rising by 1 day per year up to 30 days, with the ability to purchase an extra 5 days, a contributory occupational money-purchase pension scheme with life assurance and long term disability insurance, salary sacrifice schemes including cycle, car, technology and childcare vouchers, heavily discounted AA membership, gyms and savings on high street stores, holidays and restaurants amongst many others.

Want to know more?

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To Apply

Just upload your CV and really importantly, your covering letter (don’t forget to attach this, as we really want to know more about you!)

Interviews will be held on 18th October 2018.

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